It's National School Lunch Week, but who's really celebrating?
Schools across the country are celebrating National School Lunch Week, but students may not be enjoying those lunches.
Schools across the country are celebrating National School Lunch Week, but students may not be enjoying those lunches.
Most students in the public schools eat heated frozen meals, rather than meals prepared at the schools. In cities like Philadelphia, advocates and organizations demanded that Philadelphia school lunches provide healthier options than just the frozen, pre-plated hamburgers, pizza, and chicken nuggets. The low budget for the school lunches limits the food options.
In comparison, other countries like Japan and France make homemade lunches using locally grown food.
Blogs like American Lunchroom show lunches from across the country and the world. The blog says it “aims to bring awareness of what kids are eating in lunchrooms across America: the good, the bad and the ugly,” and receives submissions from people all across the country.
Do Something, a nonprofit organization, created an online project called “Fed Up,” to showcase the photos of school lunches submitted by students across the country. The goal of the project was to create a report the state of school lunches in the U.S. The report is planned to be distributed to school districts all over the U.S. and to school nutrition advocates to help demand school lunches.
Lack of adequate school lunches is not only a Philadelphia problem. America's lunches in comparison to other countries look more like food for farm animals, not our country’s future.
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